Eggless French Toast

You all know that every kid loves a little snack. If you feed them with yummy and tasty snack they will love it.. One such snack is this eggless french toast. 

I tried this recipe for the first time when I had to baby sit a couple of kids who are vegetarian and they don't even add eggs to their food. This fresh toast was tasty, looked like a regular french toast and easy to prepare with 5 ingredients available in your pantry. 

The kids adoration for the toast was out of the world. It made my day looking at their smiley faces. ;-) .. My husband loves french toast and when I told him over the phone about this eggless french toast, he couldn't believe his ears.... I was waiting for him to come back home to make him this french toast. When he had the toast, he was enjoying and relished with praise. 

You will enjoy this sweet version of eggless french toast. I will soon post the savory version. Here you go with the simple & easy to prepare recipe :)

                           

Ingredients 

• Bread - 6 (I used white bread)
• Milk - 1/2cup
• Vanilla custard powder - 2tsp 
• Sugar - 2tsp 
• Butter - as needed 

Method 

• In a pan boil milk in medium flame. 
• Take the warm milk in a wide bowl. Add sugar and vanilla custard powder. Mix well.
• Heat a pan with butter. Dip both sides of the bread in milk. 

                           

• Toast both sides of the bread on a pan until golden brown color. Add more butter if it's sticky.
• Hot eggless french toast is ready to be served with maple syrup and a bowl of fruit for breakfast. 

                                 

Tip

• If you don't have custard powder, replace it with cornflour and vanilla essence which will also give same taste.
• You can sprinkle cinnamon while serving. 
• You can also make with wheat bread.
• While dipping the bread slices in milk do not let it stand for long time otherwise it would become mushy.    

Check out our french-toast post.

   

Kids these days....

I love listening to my grand parents’ and parents’ childhood stories. There is always a warmth in their eyes and excitement in their words as they fondly recollect – ‘those were the days when…..’ And it is so funny that the years have gone by so fast that I now exclaim – ‘Gone are those days…..’ when I see kids these days.

Kids these days have ‘iPads’, ‘mobile phones’ and other gadgets to play with; when all we wanted then was to play ‘outside’. Kids these days need mobile apps to listen to their rhymes or lullaby for sleep; when all we wanted then was mom’s lullaby and dad’s bedtime stories. And this list can go endless... However, we should agree that they do not fail to create memories their own way to tell their next generation.

A sneak peak of the kids these days…

Who could have guessed that this 14 month old kid playing with her dad's mobile phone would bid an auction on eBay for a 1962 Austin-Healey Sprite car and also win it hands down? Neither me nor her dad could have ! Can you? Lucky for her, she is now the proud owner of the car as her dad decided to keep it.

DIY Personalized Fridge Magnets

Hello All ! Guess who's back after a long, blissful break where I ate lavish amounts of food and had copious amounts of fun.

So,earlier this week when I was loading  my pantry and refrigerator, found couple of promotional fridge magnets that have been given by companies. You know I can't throw away scraps, and you know how we love to re-create something nice out of these scraps like our Desk Organizer using tissue rolls, earrings holder using a photo frame. 

Speaking of fridge magnets, my husband likes to have  a huge collection of them. So I thought why not give these dull babies a jazzy make over. These can be done in a  jiffy and that too with the things found around the house.These are kids friendly hence would make a great gift for father's day.

Easy Rasamalai

                             

Rasamalai is a famous Bangladeshi dessert. Cardamom,saffron and pistachio with milk gives a great aroma and taste. I missed the Chennai style rasamalai's after coming to Chicago. This recipe is easy to make if you have ready made rasgullas at home. Haldiram's ready made rasgullas works best for this recipe. I will soon post the recipe for making home made rasgullas. This is a very special post for us, as it's our 6th monthsary @ "A Kaleidoscopic Dream". Thanks for all your support & here we go with the recipe... 

                                    

PAV BHAJI MASALA

I remember the first time I had Pav Bhaji Masala in a place called Gangotree Chat house in Chennai. The very moment I fell in love with the aromatic smell of the butter in the pav and the masala. For a long time, I was craving for Pav Bhaji masala ;) so i decided to do this yummy chat recipe. Whenever I go out, I order pav bhaji or bhel puri, without a second thought. They are my all time favourite chat. Pav Bhaji is easy to make, it has almost all vegetables. I followed a simple version of this chat recipe. Here we go with the recipe.
          

Spicy Vegetable Sweet Corn Soup

I enjoy a cup of sweet corn soup at the Indo-Chinese restaurant, so I have posted my version with a little bit of spices. I do this soup often for my hubby as he likes to try different kinds of soups. This recipe is not complicated and it’s very easy to make. I think everyone will like a warm cup of soup in this cold weather . Kids usually don’t like vegetables but they would love this healthy soup. Now let’s go to the preparation.

                                             Serves: 4
                                      Prep Time: 4 mins 
                                Cooking Time: 25 mins 

Ingredients

Sweet corn	3 cups
Onion (fine chopped)	1 medium
Tomato (fine chopped)	1 small
Cabbage (fine chopped)	1 cup
Carrot (cut into small cubes)	1 cup
Frozen peas	½ cup
Zucchini (cut into small cubes)	1 cup
Corn flour	1 tsp
Lemon	1/2
Green chilies (fine chopped)	2 nos
Cilantro (fine chopped)	2 tbsp
Pepper powder	½ tsp
Salt	As needed

To Temper

Oil	2 tsp
Bay Leaf	1 no
Cloves	2 nos
Cinnamon	1 inch
Fennel Seeds	½ tsp
Whole Pepper	1 tsp

Preparation

•  Soak the frozen sweet corn in hot water for a 5-10 mins , then divide the sweet corn into two halves. 
• Grind the first half of the sweet corn (approximately 2 cups) with little water to extract juice out of it and use the rest of the sweet corn (approximately 1 cup) to the soup. 
• Mix corn flour with little water and keep it aside to mix it with the soup at last to give a thick texture.

Method

• In a pan heat oil, now add bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds and whole pepper, and then when it starts to split add onion, fry until it turns  transparent or pink color.
• Now add the chopped tomatoes, add little salt so that it gets mashed. After tomatoes are cooked, add all the vegetables and a pinch of salt.
• Once the vegetables are cooked, add green chilies, extracted sweet corn juice and cook in the medium heat for 5-6 mins.

• Add little salt, pepper powder and corn flour mixture to the cooked vegetables and allow it to boil for 5 mins.
• When the soup starts to boil , add lemon juice and put off the heat.
• Now hot and healthy sweet corn vegetable soup is ready to serve. While serving add croutons to the soup as it gives a nice flavor and taste.

Tips

• Green chili gives a different flavor to the soup, if you don’t want it can be omitted. 
• I added vegetables like cabbage, carrot, frozen peas, zucchini but you can also add beans, cauliflower, broccoli. 
• You can have this soup as appetizer for lunch and dinner along with toasted bread.
• Zucchini is a low calorie vegetable which is a good source of vitamin A, folate and potassium. The other name for zucchini is summer squash. You can also add yellow zucchini to this soup.